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I decided that was time to get free from Apple’s Notes after chatting about references manager (which will have their moment), and with the focus on my cicle of migration from software/platforms to other that are more honest/fair and if possible open source.

TL;DR: Just want the results? Check my profile at Github.

I believe the use of assertions is very important during the software development process. It prevents //TODOs from becoming just a memory sent to the code repository and forever deposited on the shelf.

Is not uncommon to create apps that are similar or even work in apps that apply different layouts, be the reason cultural adaptation, accessibility, dark vs light theme, etc. No matter the reason you would be creating mechanisms for allowing your app to quickly changing between layouts, a well-architected code may be the difference between success and subsequent refactoring or even worse total garbage code that someone will question “may we drop this and start anew?”.

You can read it in portuguese 🇧🇷 here

This is one is a blazing fast tip, did you ever stumble in a .jks (keystore) file from a client while trying to submit to Google Play that precious app you just finished? Well sometimes, or always…. who knows, your client simply does not have the alias name and has a list of possible passwords.

Next step for me is composed of two things:

The title speaks truthfully, remote work is good but ain’t easy as people are used to thinking. Most of the current companies don’t know how to deal with it and some of them even spread horrible lies difficulting the adoption of this wonderful working style.

Being a remote developer isn’t an easy task and as such having tools to make things going as smooth as possible is a must.

Configure properly .gitignore for each project can be a huge problematic job, even more when messed up he comes back to bite us.

I’m used to classify myself as a generalist and I receive lots of odd looks from the people around me:

This time I stumble upon a very unusual problem, at least for me, UDP ports collision. A open source library that I used didn’t garantee that two different apps using that same library would have different UDP ports, so when I installed two of my prototypes one of them didn’t worked properly and unfortunately the library didn’t told me that was the problem it gave me a completely generic error.

I enjoy using terminal, I really do, yet sometimes having a visual shortcut when using an OS may be a nice perk.

Last time we talked about Open Source licenses, but now we enter the realm of game development, more precisely audio a feature that is ignored more that it should be.

To pick a license for an open source code had been always something difficult for me, sometimes still is a little bit puzzling.

Take notes is harder than it looks, the problem is not in the action of taking notes itself, but in making actual useful notes, that once back to them you understand whatever was the thing in need to be remembered later.

Hey listen! First post with Windows apps development subject, more specifically speaking UWP development. Since Windows 10 things got mixed. Well, let’s get to the point…

Quality is something we all look for in the “shelves” today, be it physical or digital. The best television, the best car, the best clothes, the best education, the best trip, the best book, simply the best “put the name here”, we can even go further and talk about the best experiences and feelings.

The way we do things in our jobs or while working in pet/open source projects have an impact we tend to ignore or overlook.

First feature I want to implement is local storage through NSUserDefaults, why? Because it must be simple to do such a small feature giving the opportunity to implement unit tests all along.

Swift has been surfing the news waves quite some time by now even more after the Open Source Announcement. I have given the though of learning it day one, and to say the truth I read the Apple’s intro book when the first version came off, the problem was I didn’t wanted to commit to the language at that time.

This one will be blazing fast read, at least here. Instead of going all verbose on what I did lets link the places where I got the information from on how to use Disqus + Jekyll.

When comes down to using dependencies in Java/Android projects, Gradle is, at the writing of this post, the most useful tool around.

Javascript is a language with thousands of frameworks and together with them are thousands of solutions to solve our problems and improve our code bases.

Launching applications nowadays require, amongst other things, excellent user experience with awesome visuals, and being a programmer is not only taking care of making code but also caring for whatever one can do to improve those two items.

Since J2ObjC¹ it’s quite useful I shall bring some technical tips while I’m working with it.

As a person that like to expand my knowledge I look for different areas which can bring more into my life and job.

From time to time adding new options to back your solutions and ideas is a good practice and may also be refreshing.

Is unusual for me to celebrate and even review the places I work in my anniversaries.

In the search of the path to be a better pro, we often forget that our careers shall not only be built on technical skills.

Today I have a special post for my fellow brazilians and those that can read in portuguese because the books I’m going to mention are brought to us by Casa do código a brazilian publisher.

For us to go further and start creating sample solutions in Rust extending to its parts that we don’t know yet we must finish the basics side quests.

Primitive types, the pillar of our future softwares, they are needed for anything we want to model and represent.

Continuing our journey lets try more on functions, until now they were plain simple, we just had the main sample.

Continuing our journey through these exciting lands of Rust we’re going to unveil variable binding (one can think as it being almost the same thing as normal variables).

Before continuing through learning Rust I hit a wall, I had everything I need installed last time and it was enough…. right?

There is more on career development for programmers than just train hard on their technical “features”.

I always loved to learn, I was raised that way, instigated to pursue curiosity and knowledge because it is indeed fun to do it. Now as a programmer I have some urge from time to time to meet new languages, and this is the turn for Rust. It’s not the first time I do this so I’ll try to do something new, that is why you’re reading this. Yup I’m building a devlog to guide others during my journey.

Apple added default margins to views in the latest iOS version (iOS 8). Is somewhat a helping feature that turns to be a pain when you don’t know how to shut it down.

It’s not uncommon that a developer has a stack of tools, in fact is quite common to see multiple stacks of choice for each different set of technologies.
I find it to be curious that we aren’t used to share and discuss the whole stack, from our machine, through the programming language, to the server configuration, there are lots of handful decisions, tricks, new tools, and all sort of hidden knowledge locked in the dark corners of our heads.

From time to time friends keep asking me the same question: Which is the best project management tool you know?
First of all there is no such a thing as the best tool ever to solve a given problem, there are tools and there are problems and we should stick with the stack that solves them.
That said I’d like to share some tools I use or would use.

After so many years using blogspot I decided to move on.